seriously? i didn't knnow people like that REALLY exsisted (less that they wrote for "newspapers")... hmm, interesting, amusing, depressing, mind blowing... i'd say you found a gem! i should forward that to the poet laureate...
Molly, you get so many points for A) Not liking Dana Gioia because he blows SO HARD B) Cheeseburger in Paradise.
I think the Jimmy Buffett part is my favorite. Either that or when he asked the guys in the bar who their favorite Yugoslavian immigrant poet is. Honestly, it's so spot on that I can't tell if it's real or not. It's like the perfect Onion article, but a real opinion page.
I want to believe it's ironic, but I'm having a hard time. There's probably something of an irony deficit in Fallon, Nevada.
Re: Dana Gioia, I was explaining why I hate him to Laura Eve this summer and midway through I realized that tears were actually welling in my eyes. My subconscious weeps at the thought of you, Mister Gioia!
He also writes shitty ABAB poems. Worse, he's a Republican.
Re: cheeseburger in paradise, beneath the nauseating image of a "hunk of meat" there is a message that is deeply disturbing and undeniably sinister for those of us who have amended our carnivorous habits, metaphorically or otherwise. Ick.
so now that im jobless...or "retired" as loren likes to put it..im allowed to read things that dont have to do with grant proposals and exit surveys..
i just read this and i demand to know where this lohantan valley is?! and b)how do i avoid it..
did you read the comments people made?? i was expecting at least 1 out of the 4 to say something along the lines of "did you write that on the back of your GED?" or soemthing..
but nope. support for jimmy buffet.
i cant stop shivering...i dont know if thats because our a/c is broken in the "on" position and i dont have any clean pants, or because im full of nerd rage
there are too many lines in that article that require a full page rant, to continue typing any longer...but yes..lets lower the already miniscule cultural standards in america...lets get rid of them there libaries with all those bound..word..piles...and those...typewriting tv..light..boxes....
after reading this i feel various things:
ReplyDelete1. deeply afraid that poetry in the sense that you and i mean it is a dying art.
2. mildly disgusted by the "average man"
3. and yet, worried, that if i write things that the average reader does not find accesible then i am not doing the world any good.
oh, internal conflict.
What you should feel is that you are on the inside of a hilaaaaaaaarious joke.
ReplyDeleteseriously?
ReplyDeletei didn't knnow people like that REALLY exsisted (less that they wrote for "newspapers")... hmm, interesting, amusing, depressing, mind blowing... i'd say you found a gem!
i should forward that to the poet laureate...
after reading this i, too, feel various things:
ReplyDelete1. who do i hate more: this guy, or dana gioia? it's a toss-up.
2. am i a bad populist if i can't go into a bowling alley and deliver a poetry reading?
3. nail in the coffin: jimmy buffett?! i'm trying to be on the inside of the joke, but this is beyond humor. this is VERY VERY SERIOUS.
4. "Cheeseburger in paradise / Heaven on earth with an onion slice / Not too particular, not too precise / I'm just a cheeseburger in paradise"
Molly, you get so many points for A) Not liking Dana Gioia because he blows SO HARD B) Cheeseburger in Paradise.
ReplyDeleteI think the Jimmy Buffett part is my favorite. Either that or when he asked the guys in the bar who their favorite Yugoslavian immigrant poet is. Honestly, it's so spot on that I can't tell if it's real or not. It's like the perfect Onion article, but a real opinion page.
I want to believe it's ironic, but I'm having a hard time. There's probably something of an irony deficit in Fallon, Nevada.
ReplyDeleteRe: Dana Gioia, I was explaining why I hate him to Laura Eve this summer and midway through I realized that tears were actually welling in my eyes. My subconscious weeps at the thought of you, Mister Gioia!
He also writes shitty ABAB poems. Worse, he's a Republican.
Re: cheeseburger in paradise, beneath the nauseating image of a "hunk of meat" there is a message that is deeply disturbing and undeniably sinister for those of us who have amended our carnivorous habits, metaphorically or otherwise. Ick.
Let's clarify here. The last two comments: mollyshannon. The first comment: mollybrown. We're similar people but not, in fact, the same.
ReplyDeleteI have a great story about Cheeseburger in Paradise and a coma that I'll share with you at lunch if you remind me.
ReplyDeleteAlso, my blog needs more Mollys. Maybe it should be a Molly fan club.
so now that im jobless...or "retired" as loren likes to put it..im allowed to read things that dont have to do with grant proposals and exit surveys..
ReplyDeletei just read this and i demand to know where this lohantan valley is?! and b)how do i avoid it..
did you read the comments people made?? i was expecting at least 1 out of the 4 to say something along the lines of "did you write that on the back of your GED?" or soemthing..
but nope. support for jimmy buffet.
i cant stop shivering...i dont know if thats because our a/c is broken in the "on" position and i dont have any clean pants, or because im full of nerd rage
there are too many lines in that article that require a full page rant, to continue typing any longer...but yes..lets lower the already miniscule cultural standards in america...lets get rid of them there libaries with all those bound..word..piles...and those...typewriting tv..light..boxes....
HEY--
ReplyDeleteBrian, why does partially-articulate man have to be a dumb hick? I like him.
hes not dumb....hes a jeopardy contestant remember....he just was born into a world with too many descriptive words..
ReplyDelete"i'll take, you know, wooden... ass-shelves.. for 400, alex."
"you mean chairs, inarticulate jeopardy contestant??